About This Artwork

Pierre Bonnard
French, 1867-1947

Sheet of Studies, c. 1895

Graphite, pen and black ink, brush and black wash, and watercolor on ivory wove paper
312 x 199 mm
Inscribed recto, lower right, in graphite: "15"
Gift of the Estate of Grant J. Pick, 1963.397R

© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Grant J. Pick Collection," June 20–August 16, 1970, p. 15 (ill.), as Woman with an Umbrella.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Pierre Bonnard: The Graphic Works," December 2, 1989–February 4, 1990, pp. 104, 106 (ill.), fig. 146, opp. 106, 217, cat. 32, as Studies for Woman with an Umbrella, 1894.

Publication History

Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), p. 8, nos. 1A10, 1A11, as Woman with Umbrella (recto), and Woman Putting on Gloves (verso).

Wayne Entice and Melody Peters, Drawing: Space, Form, and Expression, 3rd ed. (Upper Saddle River, 2003), pp. 43-44, fig. 1-40.

Ownership History

Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939), Paris [New York 1989]. W. H. Schab, New York, by 1959 [Witt Library]. Grant J. Pick (1910–1963), Chicago, by 1963; given by his estate to the Art Institute, 1963.